Ivan Angelovski

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MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C.

MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C.

Expert says event exemplifies worrying overlap between martial arts and extremism. Some of the country’s most prominent white supremacist groups gathered in Vancouver this summer for a secretive neo-Nazi conference that also included martial arts gym owners, coaches and trainers. Held at the Scottish Cultural Centre in the city’s south end, the event was organized by a group called Exiles...

Canadian tech helped U.S. strike alleged Venezuelan drug boats: report

Canadian tech helped U.S. strike alleged Venezuelan drug boats: report

Global Affairs Canada says it’s ‘aware of the U.S. operation and is monitoring the situation.’ A high-tech Canadian-made camera system was used as part of controversial U.S. strikes against alleged Venezuelan drug boats, according to a report by the non-governmental organization Project Ploughshares that was shared exclusively with CBC's visual investigations team.

How a Russian oligarch imported a Canadian-made luxury jet despite sanctions

How a Russian oligarch imported a Canadian-made luxury jet despite sanctions

Members of Russia's business elite are flying in Canadian-made luxury planes that were imported after sanctions targeting the country's aviation sector came into place, CBC's visual investigations unit has found. Russian import records obtained by CBC News show 34 business jets and commercial aircraft built in Canada and sold on the secondary market have ended up in Russia since it...

Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs - where some of Canada’s white nationalist 'active clubs' gather to prepare for violence

Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs - where some of Canada’s white nationalist 'active clubs' gather to prepare for violence

In public parks, gyms and martial arts clubs — where children take classes — some of Canada’s most notorious white supremacists are preparing for violence. The members of these fight clubs, known in white nationalist communities as “active clubs,” are hiding in plain sight. As part of their recruitment and online propaganda, they post videos of their training sessions, taking...

Liberals and Conservatives said their rallies drew thousands. We decided to count

Liberals and Conservatives said their rallies drew thousands. We decided to count

Hand-counted images of rallies yield significantly smaller numbers. Political campaigns may be significantly off-base when it comes to the number of people they say are present at campaign rallies across the country, a CBC News investigation shows.

Fake election news ads are luring people into investment schemes. We got some taken down

Fake election news ads are luring people into investment schemes. We got some taken down

Fake CBC News articles that link to sketchy investment schemes are flooding social media with sensational headlines about the Canadian election and other recent political developments. CBC's visual investigations unit reported on a similar scam in late January, where fake articles lured victims to Quantum AI, a well-known scam. But this latest generation of fake content has been updated to...

Bots and Indian TV push fake news about Canada in wake of Hindu temple clashes

Bots and Indian TV push fake news about Canada in wake of Hindu temple clashes

A wave of misinformation about Canadian institutions is being amplified by suspected bot accounts on social media and by pro-Modi news outlets in India, raising concerns it could imperil relations between Sikhs and Hindus in Canada. CBC News reviewed hundreds of posts on X and dozens of hours of footage streamed on YouTube in the days before and after clashes...